He should have known. He should have known that there would be traps, or
something to keep intruders out if someone else was already here. He should
have - and he didn't. Not that he had much time to be angry about it, being
thrown back as he was, slamming into some fixture and toppling forward.
Just getting his body to remember to breathe was more than enough to occupy
him, getting himself to try and move as rocks tumbled down. His ears rang
and his body felt numb, vision blurred, half red and half not.
A scream, maybe? He wasn't sure, looking like a newborn calf as he
struggled to find his equilibrium and get back to his feet. He tasted salt
and iron in his mouth now, or maybe copper. It was metal, whatever it was,
and god every breath hurt. It wasn't helped by his coughing.
He'd managed to get to his hands and knees when Ellana screamed, but
anything beyond that was to much, giving out as he lost his balance and
struggled to make sense of the scene.
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He should have known. He should have known that there would be traps, or something to keep intruders out if someone else was already here. He should have - and he didn't. Not that he had much time to be angry about it, being thrown back as he was, slamming into some fixture and toppling forward. Just getting his body to remember to breathe was more than enough to occupy him, getting himself to try and move as rocks tumbled down. His ears rang and his body felt numb, vision blurred, half red and half not.
A scream, maybe? He wasn't sure, looking like a newborn calf as he struggled to find his equilibrium and get back to his feet. He tasted salt and iron in his mouth now, or maybe copper. It was metal, whatever it was, and god every breath hurt. It wasn't helped by his coughing.
He'd managed to get to his hands and knees when Ellana screamed, but anything beyond that was to much, giving out as he lost his balance and struggled to make sense of the scene.